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11. Ration book and clothing book.
	Food rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. Clothes rationing on points began in June 1941 and a...

12. Southwark Air Raid Precautions Mobile First Aid Unit.
	Five members of the Southwark Air Raid Precautions Mobile First Aid Unit. The unit would attend the scene of a bomb blast, where they would deal with...

13. Stainer Street Arch, Bermondsey.
	During the Second World War, Bermondsey was the most heavily bombed place in Britain. The docks, warehouses, factories, railways and its proximity to...

14. The ruins of South Hallsville School.
	The destruction of the South Hallsville School in September 1940 was one of the worst incidents during a war in which children were directly in the...

15. The ruins caused by a V1 strike on Elsenham Road, East Ham.
	Germany launched its new V1 weapon from Pas-de-Calais on the northern coast of France on 12 June 1944. The first ten failed to reach the country but...

16. The ruins of the Woolworth's store on New Cross Road, Deptford.
	The V2 had a considerable psychological effect on Londoners as, unlike the V1 Flying Bomb, which made a characteristic buzzing sound, the V2...

17. *The Empire Windrush.*
	The 'Empire Windrush' in 1948. In June of that year, she brought 492 Jamaican immigrants to Tilbury. They were the first of the many Caribbean...

18. Thornton Wilder inspecting bomb damage in Spa Road, Bermondesy.
	The American writer Thornton Wilder is shown inspecting bomb damage. Visits such as this were shown in newsreels to keep up morale. The government...

19. The evacuation of children: feet inspection.
	The 'Daily Mirror' of 2 September 1939 described the evacuations thus: 'The children, smiling and cheerful, left their parents and entrained for...

20. The Council Chambers of Bermondsey Town Hall.
	The ornate Council Chamber in Bermondsey Town Hall. It was destroyed by a V1 flying bomb in 1944.


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